Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

8 reviews

blujade's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Classism, Death, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Vomit, Child death, and Cursing

Minor: Drug abuse, Sexism, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, and Sexual content

astevenson123's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Child death, Alcoholism, Grief, Death of parent, Stalking, Drug use, and Domestic abuse

ameliaflint's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

This was… okay. The story gripped me at least a little, but the characters were not interesting and the writing style was self-important and pompous. It was an interesting premise that culminated in a boring, unbelievable twist. Not great. I struggled to get through it only to have a disappointing ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Child death, and Death of parent

Minor: Rape

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gaslighting, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexism, Sexual assault, Rape, Death of parent, Child death, Stalking, Kidnapping, Murder, Grief, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit

reading_binosaur's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0

I honestly don't know what do say about this.

The characters of Scott and JJ are absolutely amazing, and the relationship between them due to the trauma of a random event.

The book is a little slow in the middle as it goes into three different people involved and how it happened that they were on the plane.

Overall, AMAZING book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, Domestic abuse, and Drug use

allisonshewfelt's review against another edition

This was just thriller fluff or filler. Like this is what you read when you don't want to commit to a book and just feel average. 

The beginning was suspenseful with the plane crash and Scott's harrowing swim but then the rest of the book delved into the back stories of the characters that I didn't really care about. Scott, JJ and Rachel were the only ones I liked. 

It wasn't your typically thrilling, suspenseful read and it dragged. There were a lot of interesting quotes I reflected on so that was a plus and the chapters describing Scott's disaster paintings were so well written but so short and scarce. I wish the whole book had that writing style but that would be weird for a thriller.

I feel like all the back stories took up so much of the book I forgot what the mystery was. And there were so many unnecessary lines about male body parts that I was like "is that really necessary hawley?"

Also I hated how much the news media was in here like I get that media paints people as different things and that was a huge part of the book but it was so realistic like I'm already annoyed with the news I don't wanna read about it.

I already know how it ends with who crashed the plane and why and it was such a stupid reason, not on the author's part but on the character's. I can't tell if the reason is realistic or not but I feel like that's something Kanye would do. Even though I dnfed this, I'm just giving it 3 stars for the painting chapters and the insightful quotes but this thriller's not worth your time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, and Kidnapping

mmadill227's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Child death

atamano's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Kidnapping and Child death

Minor: Drug use and Injury/Injury detail